Megan Kim Vu


2024

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MemeIntent: Benchmarking Intent Description Generation for Memes
Jeongsik Park | Khoi P. N. Nguyen | Terrence Li | Suyesh Shrestha | Megan Kim Vu | Jerry Yining Wang | Vincent Ng
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

While recent years have seen a surge of interest in the automatic processing of memes, much of the work in this area has focused on determining whether a meme contains malicious content. This paper proposes the new task of intent description generation: generating a description of the author’s intentions when creating the meme. To stimulate future work on this task, we (1) annotated a corpus of memes with the intents being perceived by the reader as well as the background knowledge needed to infer the intents and (2) established baseline performance on the intent description generation task using state-of-the-art large language models. Our results suggest the importance of background knowledge retrieval in intent description generation for memes.